Virological characteristics of the SARS-CoV-2 XBB variant derived from recombination of two Omicron subvariants

Authors

Tamura, Tomokazu; 

Ito, Jumpei; 

Uriu, Keiya; 

Zahradnik, Jiri; 

Kida, Izumi; 

Anraku, Yuki; 

Nasser, Hesham; 

Shofa, Maya; 

Oda, Yoshitaka; 

Lytras, Spyros ; 

Nao, Naganori; 

Itakura, Yukari; 

Deguchi, Sayaka; 

Suzuki, Rigel; 

Wang, Lei; 

Kita, Shunsuke; 

Yajima, Hisano; 

Sasaki, Jiei; 

Sasaki-Tabata, Kaori; 

Shimizu, Ryo; 

Tsuda, Masumi; 

Kosugi, Yusuke; 

Fujita, Shigeru; 

Pan, Lin; 

Sauter, Daniel; 

Yoshimatsu, Kumiko; 

Suzuki, Saori; 

Asakura, Hiroyuki; 

Nagashima, Mami; 

Sadamasu, Kenji; 

Yoshimura, Kazuhisa; 

Yamamoto, Yuki; 

Nagamoto, Tetsuharu; 

Schreiber, Gideon; 

Maenaka, Katsumi; 

Hashiguchi, Takao; 

Ikeda, Terumasa; 

Fukuhara, Takasuke; 

Saito, Akatsuki; 

Tanaka, Shinya; 

Matsuno, Keita; 

Takayama, Kazuo; 

Sato, Kei ; 

Begum, Mst Monira

Source

Nature Communications